TixInfo Introduction

General

TixInfo is a tk script to read GNU "info" files and display them. TixInfo can be used stand alone (via WISH), or embedded within an application to provide integrated, on-line help. It runs on every system that supports Tcl/Tk/Tix.

Info files provide a robust hyper-text capability that is ideal for on-line help. The format is suitable for both tty-based systems and graphical systems. In addition, the same document source can produce both a nice hardcopy manual and Info files. Note that most GNU software is documented in this way (via texinfo). Info files usually reside in a directory /usr/info or /usr/local/info or /usr/local/gnu/info or similar. Other info readers are xinfo (old), info (text-based), and the info mode of the editor (X-)Emacs. It is also possible to serve info files on the WWW with info2www or to convert their texinfo source to HTML with texi2html. Info versions of the Python documentation can be found at http://www.python.org/doc/.